There was a thread on here about this which was started a few years ago and revived a few weeks ago, but seems like its disappeared.
The USAF basically said it was “too expensive”…. It was the US ARMY that orginally wanted a replacment for the Shorts Sherpa (which is now at least 25yrs old and useless), but the USAF squashed those plans.
World News
U.S. senators are demanding that the Air Force explain the metrics it used to estimate the lifetime cost of operating the C-27J cargo plane, which the service has proposed canceling in the Pentagon’s 2013 budget proposal.
Democrats and Republicans, primarily from states where Air National Guard units fly or are slated to fly the aircraft, questioned the Air Force’s rationale for scrapping the fleet of 21 purchased aircraft.
Thus far, the Air Force has yet to provide congressional defense committees with the metrics it used to determine that each C-27J would cost $308 million over its lifetime, which the Air Force used in its rationale to terminate the program.
Lawmakers and defense analysts have questioned the lifecycle costs, particularly because three Air Force assessments of these costs vary between $111 million and $308 million per aircraft.
Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and other members of the panel questioned Air Force Secretary Michael Donley and Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz about the varying C-27J lifecycle cost estimates during a March 20 hearing.
“There’s a big gap there that I don’t think they adequately explained at all here today,” Levin said after the hearing when asked about the $200 million gap in the estimates.
The committee will continue to look at this issue during its markup of the Pentagon’s 2013 budget proposal, he said…………….
Rest of the article here…
http://www.defensenews.com/article/20120320/DEFREG02/303200010/Senators-Tell-USAF-Prove-C-27-Cost-Claims
There is NOTHING wrong with the C27, other then the fact the USAF didnt want them given to the US army
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